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This is the final in the three part interview series with Katharine as she continues to put up amazing photos in Flickr. Check them out.

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It seems that applying metallic effects has become popular. I’m going to show how to apply it to the water in the photo below. This tutorial will work for ACDSee 10 or ACDSee Pro 2.

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ACDSee Pro 2 & ACDSee 10 can be used to add a white or black border to a photo. If you’d like to get creative & nest the borders, that is possible too. This tutorial shows how to change the color of the border also.

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Selective coloring in ACDSee is SO easy now! Before ACDSee 10 in order to achieve this I had to use masks in ACDSee Photo Editor.

This can be done in both ACDSee 10 & ACDSee Pro 2!

• Open your photo in ACDSee by double clicking on the thumbnail.
• Use the pull down menu on the Palette Icon & choose Edit Mode

A new pane opens on the left

• Click on Selections
• With Freehand Lasso tool selected, draw around the item
• stay fairly close, but it doesn’t have to be exact.
• when you get back to where you started the selection will be made
• Click on Invert, Click on Done if you’re satisfied with your selection

Click on the Color - in the left pane & this is when the magic happens!

• Move the Saturation slider to the left to desaturate the background

To make up for the area around the image, on the top

• Move the slider for the Feathering to the right.
• Decide what looks the most natural.
• Click on Done

This will bring you back to the Main Menu of the Edit Panel

• Click on Finished Editing at the bottom
• And your photo is finished!

I’ve written a lot of tutorials, so I always appreciate those made by others. JD generously posted a link to his tutorial on Creating Vignettes with ACDSee. He  posts under the username ‘TherealJD’ in the ACDSee Product Forums.

On his blog, CadGFX, JD says:

Acdsee is an excellent image manager. And for quick photo editing, it’s an excellent tool. Pro 2 has added a selection tool to apply various effects to only selected portions of an image. I will be using this new feature to create some custom vignettes for an image.

In his tutorial, Better Vignettes with ACDSee Pro 2, step by step instructions are provided to create this custom vignette (the tutorial will also work in ACDSee 10).

If you’re not familiar with ACDSee Pro 2 or ACDSee 10, here are instructions for opening the editor.

And here’s a screenshot of the features that JD used:

If you’ve created tutorials using ACDSee products or are interested in writing some, please let me know at cbensen@acdsee.com  The blog is a great way to share them.

Other tutorials that you may be interested in

Before & after photo

Shadows and Highlights Tool in ACDSee Pro 2

ACDSee rescues lost photos

Here’s a quick tutorial for opening the Advanced Editing mode.

You’ll find it in both ACDSee 10 & ACDSee Pro 2.

Under the palette icon’s pull down menu, choose Edit Mode

This opens a new pane on the left with the icons described. And now you have access to the Selections tool.

Take a look at the slide show on the right under the About box. I’m going to show you how it easy it is to do.

You can create a Sendpix album in ACDSee Photo Manager 9, 10 or ACDSee Pro 2 to share your photos with family & friends. And it also creates an html code to create a slideshow on your blog or website.

Create an Album -> Next

Enter a name for your Album -> Next

Browse to your photos or layouts

select & add them

multiples can be added at once

Next -> Send (uploads your album)

An email will be sent to the email address you had given & there will be an html code in it.

You can copy & paste that into your blog to create a slideshow of your photos/pages. If your blog uses widgets then it’s really easy to create a text widget with the code. Please ask if you have questions on how to do that.

And link us to your slideshows - we’d love to see them.

Browse by date

* Browse and find photos intuitively on a virtual calendar with the new Photo Calendar option.

Here is a link to video to see it action:
Photo Calendar in Action

• Pop-up previews
  • To see the new pop-up previews in the File List pane, hover your mouse over a thumbnail. To disable pop-up previews, select Tools | Options, under File List, then click off Show thumbnails on pop-ups.

• Browse by date
  • View your photos by date with the new Photo Calendar or Events View.
    To access the Photo Calendar in ACDSee Pro 2, float the Calendar pane, select Month View, and enlarge the pane.
    Events View, a new option in the Calendar pane, displays your photos in an organized event list. Personalize events with unique descriptions like AutoShow or Jones Wedding.

• View photos faster
  • See your photos instantly on screen with the Quick View mode. Whether opening an image attachment to an e-mail, or double-clicking on a JPEG from Windows Explorer, the Quick View mode is a fast, sleek, and efficient addition to ACDSee’ powerful viewing tools. Pared down to include the viewing and browsing essentials, it displays your photos with greater speed than ever before.
• Organize, sort, and navigate
  • Group By arranges your photos into subsets, providing a logical viewing structure for faster viewing. Group by keywords, size, date taken, and other commonly used information.
    With Filter By, you get improved sorting and display of photos assigned to particular ratings or categories. For example, select Filter By | Rating 1. Only the photos in the selected folder(s) assigned to Rating 1 will be displayed.
  • Easily navigate a summary list of groups of photos in a folder using the Table of Contents display. It is available when using the new Group By and Events View features.

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A fellow user over on the ACDSee Public forum, shared this tip with me. (Thanks Sam!) This tip is used in the Folders Pane inside ACDSee Photo Manager to quickly expand out all the folders & subfolders and select all the folders & subfolders very quickly. Enjoy!

(Tip: For any image, click on the image to see a larger version of it.)

In the Folders Pane, click on the folder you wish to expand.

On your number pad, press the * key for how many levels of subfolders you have. In my example I pressed it twice. If you press the * key more times than necessary, nothing happens. Now I have all my folders expanded out.

Now to select all of them, hold down the Shift key and select the last folder. It will select all the folders in between the first and last folder. If you want specific multiple folders, hold down the Ctrl key and select individual folders one at a time.

To easily de-select the folders, just select another folder outside the range of selected folders.